Daniel Webster — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 1992.
Distinguished research scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
Director of the Johns Hopkins-Baltimore Collaborative for Violence Reduction since 2016.
Known for research demonstrating that Connecticut's permit-to-purchase handgun law was associated with a 40% reduction in firearm homicides.
Co-authored a study showing Missouri's repeal of its permit-to-purchase law was associated with a 16.1% increase in firearm suicide rates.
Holds an Sc.D. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (1990) and an MPH from the University of Michigan (1985).

Biography

Daniel W. Webster, born in 1960, is an American health policy researcher and a Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a position he has held since 1992. He serves as the distinguished research scholar of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions (formerly the Center for Gun Policy and Research) and is the first Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Bloomberg School.